The Second Knight reached Dominic after he crumbled to the ground in a smoking heap. He layed his hands upon the prophet and red energy seeped from his finger tips, eradicating charcoaled flesh and leaving living tissue in its place. The Prophet gasped as his consciousness resurfaced and came to his knees shakily. Once he was on his feet, he grabbed the knife laying next to him and sheathed the blade laying atop the outline in the sand.

As Undre Fled with those still faithful in tow, He spoke to every one... no doubt in the middle of this battle they were all suffering, miserable in the midst of all this chaos.

"You are All Fools, Your Toys will avail You no longer against the gods, and vengeance will be had on every last one of You for Insulting Us with this Gesture. What is that? you don't believe In Us? Your Guilt will haunt you to your last day, and when you die you will all be taken straight to the hells. I leave you this Gift, I introduce you to the Ghosts of your past."

Even as his fled, he inacted That One Miracle he could only use in defense. Ghosts of the Past, and all of the soldiers who heard him would know what it was... that clawing on their flesh, the flash backs. It was hard to find a Soldier with no guilt, as it is hard to find a Soldier who hasn't killed.

The Gods Had Cursed them, and no matter what, that would stick in their minds.

Confirm the kill. The first thing anyone who is trained to kill anyone is taught. Never assume anyone is dead just because it falls face first onto the ground. Thus none of the crusaders were surprised when a second lightening bolt hit the demon. Once done Matthew looked over the scene infront of him. He saw Dominic slowly get back to his feet after being hit around so much. A part of Matthew was glad the man was still alive, another part angry that he didnt die.

Yet he had achieved what he had come to do. Landing on the ground Matthew looked at the messenger and prophet before saying to them "The sword belongs to the fate prophet here in this world. If you dont want to deliver it back to him yourself send it to Beltan, Ill deal with it there. I bid you farewell and leave these vehicles here if you wish to use them.

At that moment the crusaders in the vehicles all took flight, heading south around the mountains before turning back to Beltan. Matthew had already called the rest of his crusaders still on the road to head back to Beltan in their vehicles. Now would come the time to marshal those still faithful to Justice and get out of their current predicament, something which the good inspector knew was going to be alot harder then said.

"Fine! Be like that! You can simply rot in the pocket dimension with only Justice's motars for company!" shouted an exasperated Holborn who held up the ball of fun and sucked the discorporated demon back in.

South East Deserts

With the Oasis completed the followers of the Architect began setting up basic housing and amenities to form a small village.

Dominic and the Second Horseman bid Matthew farewell. They then head off to New Yethar and a new wave of prostelyzing over Blood's victory over the demons ensued. Weapons where brought into existance and distributed amongst the faithful and Preachers spoke in the neighboring city of Irean and then Qasi. Displays of Dominic's triumphant return and rememberance for those that perished where broadcast across the West.

((Modern Warfare used to resupply the men and as gifts of celebration.))

With the celebrations of the victory over the demons (Kamon being dead as a stone), Dominic would be praised as a saviour by most of the people, but that was only for a short while when doubt was shed when the colossal Serpent of Fate slithered into town, Vagabond Banks accompanied by Elsa who now wore filthy fifth hand clothes and had had her right eye plucked from her skull as a means of initiation.

It was the simple suspicion that had Fate not intervened that Blood might have been done for that made people doubt Dominic, but never the less celebrations continued.

+10 presence in New Yethar.
-5 Presence in New Yethar.
+10 presence in Irean.

Qiban

The demon would be sucked in, but if he had honestly thought that a demon would be pleased to simply meet destruction he was rather foolish. And the pain of the Architect would likely sustain the beast for years to come.

Meanwhile, the setup in the desert met widesprad acclaim from all involved and many observers.

+10 presence.

Central Mountains

It would stick in their minds for about half an hour, which was how long it took to set up a backup power generator for the Skepticism field, at which point the camp was purged of whatever hallucenogens or what have you that Undre had put in their water... or some crap.

With this startling discovery that Undre was scientifically proven to be full of crap the documentaries brought enlightenment to the UE.

+10 presence for Athiests in mountains.
+5 presence for Athiests in Oyoi and Gand.
Wendrelial is out of a home once again.

The Sword of Fate would be handed over to Banks and Dominic would begin commissioning the building of great statues devoted to Blood and murals depicting the fall of Kamon-bal and the earlier guerilla wars of the common men within the three cities against the United forces as well as airstrips to make way for a glorious new way of war in the fights to come.

He would also call on Justice's worshippers in Irean to kindly take their leave and if they did not do so the Crusaders their would use much more convincing means

((Continuing to build presence in Irean and New Yethar with Preachers, Prophet, and Messenger))

((New Miracles))

Death at a Moment's Notice- Allows Dominic to teleport himself and any forces around him too any given location in a moment's notice.

Air Warfare- Allows Dominic to bring fighter aircraft and bombers into existance in the same way as Modern Warfare.

Helicopters containing about seven hundred hazardous material specialists arrived in the ruins of Ados. The perimeter of the city was secured by United Empire soldiers as the hazmat teams got to work decontaminating the area.

((Hazardous Material Clean-up activated on Ados to remove the effects of radioactive fall-out))

Southern Mountains

The Aid Workers and Propaganda Specialists continued to minister to the people while showing them clips of the new documentaries debunking the "divine powers" of Undre as merely clever trickery. The High Chancellor himself made a public appearance in the Refugee Camps, shaking hands with various soldiers, handing out medals and kissing refugee babies.

At the end of his trip, the Chancellor made a promise to defend the people of the world from the Axis of Terrorism also known as the cults of Blood and Justice.

((High Chancellor and the Preacher Order are busy converting the people))

The medics and field surgeons got to work fixing up the wounded soldiers.

((Comprehensive Health Care used to save as many wounded soldiers as possible.))

Upon arriving back in Beltan Matthew headed for the police HQ and rested in his office after putting up the cloak on a rack as so he could think and investigate what it did later. But now was time for other action, mainly securing the future for this city.

Thus Matthew left his office and drove to the ex councilor for Beltan and still the most powerful person in the city even he couldnt do much of anything anymore. Apon meeting the person using "Words of Reason" and talk to the person about declaring the city independent and removing its ties with the UE, acting as its own country. On the way however Matthew had invoked the "Justice's Reward" on the city, allowing the cities farming revenue surplus and allow Beltans exports to suddenly become in demand around the rest of the world to which hopefully the city would trade the goods without the tax rights the UE pressured the city into paying since it was becoming independent. It would also allow the citizens personal wealth grow through different means from personal businesses booming or winning lotto's.

With the good happenings around the city and Matthews words he hoped the councilor would see that staying under the UE's heel would get them nowhere and thus the only future this city would have would be becoming independent.

At the same time Justice's preaching order left Beltan and went to Irean and organize the loyal followers in the city, and anyone else wanting to learn about Justice, to leave the city and meet their brothers in the mountains. Meanwhile in the mountains Justice's crusader order arrived by wings and helped organize the settlement by pitching tents, organizing farmland and water supplies plus looking for ore veins in the mountains to mine and sell the metal for money for the settlement.

Shortly after his return from his visit to the mountains, the Chancellor received a series of documents which including satellite photos of troops moving from Betlan to the mountains, followed by a general gathering of people there and something that could be perceived as a war camp being set up.. This could be a fortunate turn of events. In these troubled times, such actions being performed by a rogue city-state could easily be interpreted as an act of war. A fact that the Chancellor hoped to capitalize on.

United Empire Council

The next day, the Chancellor stand before the council. "My fellow counsellors, I come before you bearing grave news. The rogue city of Betlan, still under the sway of the terrorist organisation known as the "Cult Of Justice" has begun performing military actions within close proximity of our forces operating in the mountains of Ados. My suggestion is a pre-emptive strike. Rather than wait for them to attack our armies, we strike them so that we may have the element of surprise. Here is my plan..."

After some thought Holborn picked a volunteer out of his minions and sucked him into the ball of fun to be possessed by the demon. After a few minutes both the demon and the guy were spat out into a heavily sheilded room...painted pink...with a faint suggestion of J-pop in the background.

Using the ball of fun Holborn thrust the demon host onto surgery table where it was secured by re-enforced steel clamps then hooked up to various bio-monitors.....then the doctor activated a field which essentially froze the demon in place then phazed through the wall out of the room...there were no doors.

In another room a team of scientists monitored the effects of possesion on the host's body.

After hearing the High Chancellor's recent public appearance on the airwaves while meeting with his advisors from the cities under Blood's rule, Dominic invoked a quick miracle to seize the UE's media outlets and broadcast the following image.

Justice's followers find that the mountains have been the property of the UE since Ados was assimilated into their little organisation, as such he is not allowed to mine or farm without permits, which are expeeeensive. Some UE forces (UE and athiests are different) are on their way to enforce this if he does not back off.

Qiban

The demon seems to be quite uncooperative as instead of possessing the host it merely fed off him in order to sustain itself.

((Just so you know P my believers in Irean are no longer there are now in the mountains... does that mean I also get another order Kem since that makes the amount of followers up there 51? If so inquisition up in the mountains please))

BeltanThe plans to become independent were underway. With funds from the economy boom Matthew organised every officer as well as anyone willing to help to organise clearing the city of left over rubble and the outside lands of debree from the nuke. Thanks to large construction machines that were in the city this process would be quicker then if would be if everything was done by hand.

MountainsMeanwhile the believers of justice sat tight and waited, the preachers, crusaders and inquisition looking after the believers until the UE teams arrive. Apon arriving they would organise for representatives from the UE and Matthew to meet and talk about land ownership and buying the land, all which Matthew would do under the influence of "Voice of Reason" and using "charitable Aid" to make them more susseptable(sp) to selling the land at a lower price.

Dominic departed New Yethar with a new order of Preachers in tow and the Second Horseman at his side. Once he arrived in Irean, he made a great speech, speaking of the accomplishments of those that came before them in the recent wars waged in the West and how it was everyone's responsibility to make sure their death's where not in vain and to continue building the power of the people.

Later on Dominic would commission the creation of weapon's research and production facilities across the Realm of Blood and begin clamping on the natural gas and oil deposits in the deserts to keep them from being exploited by foreign powers. In addition, plans and drafts for air turbine fields would be created and reviewed.